Goodisson, William: A historical and topographical essay upon the islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Zante: with remarks upon the character manners and customs of the Ionian Greeks : descriptions of the scenery and remains of antiquity discovered therein, and reflections upon the Cyclopian ruins, illustrated by maps and sketches (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822)

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range, attaining an elevation of about four thousand
feet; the mass is of a very regular figure, two sharp
and well defended ridge lines running down north-
wards and southwards from the summit, where they
meet at an angle, which forms the apex. The
upper part of the mountain is clothed with dark
forests of pine, which, contrasted with the white
limestone, where in a state of decay it has given
way either to its own weight, or to the force of the
torrents which have deeply indented its sides,
assume a deeper shade in the distance, and have
given it the name of the black mountain. Through-
out the winter it is capped with snow, which
usually begins to fall in November, and is not
completely dissolved until April. The apex of the
mountain is readily discriminated by its position
and elevation: it is rounded off at the top for
about sixty paces’ circuit, and is said to have been
chosen for the altar to perform sacrifices to Jupiter
Enos, and certainly a more appropriate place could
not have been selected. Small pieces of bone, in
a fossil state, some of them half burnt, which are
supposed to be of the victims offered up in sacrifice,
are found upon this point. The ceremony could
have been distinctly seen, not only from the other
islands in the Ionian sea, but from a great part of
the continent of Greece *. From such an elevation,

* In August 1819 a party of officers ■went to see mount Enos.
It was during a festival of Saint Gerasimo, the patron saint, to whom
a convent is dedicated, at the foot of the mountain. A beautiful